Stencil



L. WALL'ENSTEIN. STENCIL.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 3 I920.

Patented Apr. 18, 1922.

Int/enter:

UNITED sr Ts Pram L O wALLENsrEIiv, or BROOKLYN, NEW YORK,

STENCIL.

Specification of Letters Ii'ate nt' Pa.te te l Apfi 1922.

Application filed September 3,1920. Serial No.,4o7,924.'

To all wltomit may concern.

Be it'known that'I, LEO l VALLn NsTEiN, a citizen of the United States, residing in Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of'New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stencils, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a series of stencils and has for one object to provide suitable stencilsfor letters or other characters provided with means serving'for quickly guiding'and positioning a succeeding stencil against and-in alinement with a preceding .stencil before the latter is displaced.

Another object is to provide means, as for instance,'a window for positioning a succeedii g stencil relative to and by viewing a'preceding character already stenciled after the succeeding stencil is removed, and for permitting the succeeding character to be positioned in or out of alinement with the preceding character, as when stenciling to a curved line. 7

Still another object is-to'provide-flanges serving as handles and to guide the stencil brush and to prevent the stencil ink or other.

stencil plates;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of two'plates of a modified form, showing the plates assembled in alinement; v

. Fig. 3 is a plan showing a plate in use for making unalined characters, and

Fig. 4 is a sectional view showing nested stencil plates of the form of Fig. 2. 7

My improved stencil comprises a series of stencil sheets one for each letter or character, each comprising aflat elongated rectangular sheet of brass 5 having cut therein a stenciled letter or other character 6 in the right hand or forward intermarginal portion of the sheet remotely spaced from the edges thereof. A letter. or character sized rectangular window 7 is cut in the'rear or left-hand portionjofthe sheetv i and spaced normal inter letter distance both from; said-letter or characterG and the left An' upstanding hand edge 8 offthe sheet.

flange 9 is turned up from-,and extends from 3 end to end of, the right han'diedge of said window.

An edge flange 10 is disposedat the lower edge of the plate perpendicular to the plate and has an intermediate off-setwhereby the portion 12 to the left is slightly upwardly off-set from the rightihand portion 14. Said flanges 9 and 10 serve for quickly positioning a succeeding stencil 1.5 (Fig. 2)- against and in'alinement with the precedingist-encil.5 be

fore the latter is displaced, by placing-the left hand'edge 8 of the plate against the upstanding flange 9 or 19 of the preceding sten-' oil, and placing theleft hand portion-12 of the edge flange of tllQSLlbSGdlllg stencil .15 against the upper face of tion 15 of the edgeflange' of the preceding stencil 5. The right hand end of each portion '14 is cut away asat 20 to-preveiitinten ference with the succeeding stencil. (Fig. 2).

Said window 7 serves for succeeding stencil relative to zandby viewing aipreceding character 22 ig. already. stenciled, and assist andpermits the succeeding character 23 to be positioned in I alinethe right'hand porpositioning a ment with, or either above orlb'el'ow'the line of, the preced ng character, as when sten- I cilin to a curved line" as shownjin Fi 3.

Said flanges 9 and 10 also serve as handles, and to guide the stencil brush and to prevent the stencilmaterial from passing intothewindow or below the lower edge.

the flange 19 (Figs. 2 and 4) may be cut at an angle at its lower edge 25, to permit the" easy nesting of the stencil plates, as shown in Fig. 4, for shipping or storing.

If desired,

The stencil plate may be folded flat upon itself at the edges, asat26, for strengthem Y 10o ing the stencil, and permitting the use of thin plates. I

The operation of the stencil is'ver-y simple. A stencil is placed in the desired. position for the initial'lettenusing one of the flanges as a handle, and the stencil ink applied. If the method of Fig. 2 is used, the

succeeding stencil is then positioned as shown and its forward end held down as'the preceding stencil is raised and removed, whereupon the operation is repeated.

' If the method of Fig. 3 isused, the opera-' tion of the stenciling the. first 'letter is the same as above described, after which the stencil is removed, and the window of the succeeding stencil is registered with the preceding letter, after which the succeeding letter is stenciled.

I claim as my invention:

1. A series of stencils each comprising a sheet having a stenciled character; and an upstanding lower edge flange at the lower edge of said plate.

2. A series of stencils each comprising a sheet having a stenciled character; and an upstanding lower edge flange at the lower edge of said plate said flange serving for alining a succeeding stencil relative to precedingstencil by placing the rear'portion of the edge flange of the succeeding stencil against the upper face of the right-forward portion of the edge flange of the preceding stencil.

3. A series sheet having flange at the and an lower of said plate.

4. A series of stencils each comprising a sheet having a character; an upstanding flange at the rear edge of said character; and a lower edge flange at the lower edge of said plate, said flanges serving for quickly positioning a succeeding stencil against and in alinement with a preceding stencil by placing the rear edge of the plate against the upstanding-flange of the preceding stencil, and placing the rear portion of the edge flange of the succeeding sheet against the upper face of the forward portion of the edge flange of the preceding stencil.

5. A series of stencils each comprising a of stencils each comprising a a character; an upstanding rear edge of said character; edge flange at the lower edge sheet having a character; an upstanding flange at the rear edge of said character; and alower edgeflange atthelow-er edge of said plate; said flanges serving as handles and to guide the stencil brush and to prevent the stencil material from passing into the window or below the lower edge.

6. A series of stencils each comprising a sheet having a stenciled character in one portion of the sheet; atwindow in another portion of the sheet; an upstanding edge flange at an edge of said plate; and an upstanding flange between, said window and said character and substantially perpendicular to said edge flange and having a lower inclined edge to permit nesting with a window of a superposed plate:

7 A series of stencils each comprising a flat elongated rectangular sheet of brass having a stenc-iled letter or other character remotely spaced from the edges of the sheet in the right hand intermarginal portionof the sheet; a letteror character-sized rectangular window cut in the left hand mar ginal portion ofthe sheet and spaced normal inter-letter space from said letter or character and the left hand edge of the sheet; an upstanding flange turned up from, and extending from end to end of, the right hand edge of said window; and a lower edge flange perpendicular to the plate and having the portion to the left of said upstanding flange slightly upwardly ofl -set from the right handportion to the right thereof.

LEO VVALLENSTEIN. lVitnesses:

H. M. KIL ATRIOK, H. D. PENNEY. 

